Johnson's Adm'r v. Billups
West Virginia Supreme Court
G-REBN, Judge, furnishes the following statement of the case: In May, 1868, Hiram W. Johnson and Jane Johnson, his wife, filed their bill in the circuit court of Putnam; county, stating that on.
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G-REBN, Judge, furnishes the following statement of the case: In May, 1868, Hiram W. Johnson and Jane Johnson, his wife, filed their bill in the circuit court of Putnam; county, stating that on. August 25, 1848, he made to his children John W. Johnson and Elizabeth A. Johnson a deed conveying to them and their heirs a tract of land on which he lived in said county, with the understanding expressed on the face of said deed, that the grantor and his wife, Jane Johnson, were to live at their residence on said tract of land and have their support out of it during their natural lives, that his son…
1Opinion of the Court
G-RKEN, Judge :
The appellants’ counsel have argued this cause, as though Hiram W. Johnson’s and his wife’s rights were based solely on the deed made by them to their son and daughter on August• 25, 1848. And it is insisted that by this deed they had hut a right to live in their residence on the farm conveyed, and *692to get for themselves a support out of the land; that they retained in the land a species of life-estate. That they had a right to live in their residence on the farm during their life is plain; but this utterly undefined right on their part to get a living out of the farm by the…
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